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The Mokelumne Wilderness is a 105,165-acre (164 sq mi; 426 km 2) [1] federally designated wilderness area located 70 miles (110 km) east of Sacramento, California. It is within the boundaries of three national forests: Stanislaus , Eldorado and Toiyabe .
Round Top is a 10,381-foot (3,164 m) mountain located on the Sierra crest in Alpine County, California, United States. [3] Its summit is the highest point in Eldorado National Forest and the Mokelumne Wilderness. [1] The mountain lies just south of Carson Pass.
Mokelumne Peak has the largest body of metamorphic rock in the region, called the Mokelumne Peak roof pendant, extending over an area of 15 square miles (39 km 2).These rocks were originally Jurassic or Cretaceous age, but were metamorphosed when plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith intruded in the Cretaceous.
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Round Top Island (Tasmania), Australia Round Top Island National Park; Round Top (Alpine County, California), the highest peak in the Mokelumne Wilderness; Round Top (Contra Costa County, California), an extinct volcano in the Berkeley Hills, just east of Oakland; Round Top (Delaware County, New York) Roundtop (Franklin, Delaware County, New York)
The Mokelumne River (/ m ə ˈ k ʌ l əm n i / or / m ə ˈ k ʌ l əm i /; Mokelumne, Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a 95-mile (153 km)-long river in northern California in the United States.
The John Muir Trail (JMT) is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. It is named after John Muir, a naturalist.
The protected areas of the Sierra Nevada, a major mountain range located in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, are numerous and highly diverse.Like the mountain range itself, these areas span hundreds of miles along the length of the range, and over 14,000 feet of elevation from the lowest foothills to the summit of Mount Whitney.